noun:

• prostitute of the second rank (below the taiyu) (Edo period) ➜ 太夫

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• martial art based on the use of the iron fan ➜ 鉄扇

noun:

• lingering cold (even after the beginning of spring); lingering winter

noun:

• washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)

noun / adjectival noun:

• calmness; stillness; tranquility

noun:

• calmness of the heart; enlightenment ［じゃくじょう］ - Buddhism term

noun:

• mirugai clam (Tresus keenae, species of gaper clam)

noun:

• Unden Shinto (branch of Shinto based on Shingon Buddhist teachings)

noun:

• mirugai clam (Tresus keenae, species of gaper clam) ➜ 海松食

noun:

• elongate janthina (species of purple sea snail, Janthina globosa)

noun:

• Supreme Court of Judicature (Scotland); High Court (England); Parlement (France)

noun:

• schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate

noun:

• storage chest for a suit of armour and a helmet

noun:

• Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata) ➜ 七夕

noun:

• blue shark (Prionace glauca, species of circumglobal requiem shark) ➜ 葦切鮫

noun:

• var. of Japanese paper made from the Oriental paper bush

noun:

• slipper lobster of genus Scyllarus (esp. species Scyllarus cultrifer)

noun:

• Mahavairocana (Buddha who symbolizes the entirety of the phenomenological world) - Buddhism term

noun:

• deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost

noun:

• half-crying; being on the verge of crying

noun:

• westerly wind blowing around the time of the spring equinox

noun:

• southerly wind blowing at the start of the rainy season

noun:

• total volume control; regulations on total allowable volumes of pollutants

noun:

• cut of meat comprising the plate and the flank

noun:

• leading group (of runners in a marathon, etc.); leading pack